Dear Statalisters,
I have the following problem. I am working with a household survey
and I need to separate the information of the mother. I have a set
of variables recording a set of characteristics for each household
member. For instance, variable S_i (where i=1,�,46) records the sex
of the ith member. Variable A_i records the age of the ith member
and so on. I also have a variable that takes the value of i for
the mother in the household.
My dataset looks like this:
ID Mom S_1 A_1 S_2 A_2 S_3 A_3� S_46 A_46
1 2 M 24 F 22 F 12 M 67
2 1 F 29 M 32 M 8 . .
3 46 F 76 M 75 F 46 F 41
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What I need is to identify the mother in each row and create a set
of separate variables for her (i.e. MS, MA), while at the same
time deleting the original mother observation from the original
data set of variables (shown below).
ID Mom S_1 A_1 S_2 A_2 S_3 A_3� S_46 A_46 MS MA
1 2 M 24 . . F 12 M 67 F 22
2 1 . . M 32 M 8 . . F 29
3 46 F 76 M 75 F 46 . . F 41
Any tips or suggestions on how to do this are greatly appreciated.
I�ve tried a couple of things using the forvalues command and
searched the FAQ�s but I �m not heading in the right direction.
Many thanks,
Regina Almeyda-Duran
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